Opportunity (The Opportunity) - Softcover

Volley, Will

 
9781908434791: Opportunity (The Opportunity)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908434791 ISBN 13: 9781908434791
Verlag: Myriad Editions, 2016

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Colin is an ambitious door-to-door salesman on the verge of ‘making it’ as the owner of his own sales office. And the future is looking good. First thing I’m going to buy when I get my own office is a Porsche Boxster… But when the terms of his promotion change without warning, Colin and his team find themselves with just five days to achieve a new sales target – and to prevent his rival, Paul, from being promoted in his stead. Colin has to keep his disgruntled team from ‘negging out’ while a gang of ruthless debt collectors are getting even closer. Of course, everything is going to be fine, more than fine, in fact. Meanwhile, he runs out of coins in the phone box and the boss isn’t taking his calls. As Colin’s grasp on reality dissolves, we see how the relentless focus on positive thinking – in the face of exploitative management, pay and conditions – leads to delusion, vulnerability, failure and, finally, human tragedy. Set amidst the rain-lashed estates of southern England, The Opportunity is a darkly disturbing, stylish and compelling character study, set to become a classic of graphic noir.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Will Volley studied illustration at the University of Brighton before working as a storyboard artist in London. His graphic short story The Seagull was published in the anthology Negative Burn by Image comics for whom he has pencilled and inked stories by Phil Hester (The Atheist) and collaborated with artist John McCrea. For Classical Comics, he has drawn graphic novel adaptations of J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which won the Association of Educational Publishers’ Distinguished Achievements Award in 2009 and was turned into an interactive comic animation. Volley’s many influences include the comic book creators Will Eisner, David Mazzucchelli and David Lloyd, the playwrights David Mamet and Harold Pinter, the filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, and the novelists Honore de Balzac and Emile Zola. The Opportunity was published by Myriad in March 2016. Will lives in Worthing.

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Verlag
Myriad Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908434791
ISBN 13 
9781908434791
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
136
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